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Kundapura : Renowned cartoonist Sathish Acharya has bagged the top honour at the national Maya Kamath Memorial Awards for excellence in Cartooning- 2014. Acharya was recently named by the prestigious Forbes Magazine in the list of leading personalities who have spread India’s excellence through their imagination and thought processes.
 
Acharya’s cartoon portraying ’Z-Security for Baba Ramdev’ secured him the coveted first place in the politicall cartooning category. He was followed by Kantesh Badiger of Bengaluru and Rohan Chakravarty, Nagpur at second and third place respectively.
 
The first prize for the Best Foreign Cartoon-2014 went to Paolo Dalponte of Italy, and second prize to Behzad Ghafari of Canada. Leeza John was adjudged Best Budding Cartoonist-2014.
 
The competition received 91 entries from Indian cartoonists for the Award for Excellence in Political Cartooning, 44 for Best Budding Cartoonist Award and 53 for the Best Foreign Cartoon Award.  The competition received entries from all over the world, from countries as far as Serbia, Croatia, Iran, Cyprus, Italy and Macedonia. The quality of the entries was very high, particularly in the international section. The best entries from India were also excellent, original in conception, consummate in craftsmanship.
 
The prizes will be distributed on June 6, 2015 at the gallery of Indian Institute of Cartoonists in Bengaluru. An exhibition of selected entries will be displayed on the same occasion.
 
The jury included noted playwright and actor Girish Karnad, well-known artist S G Vasudev and senior cartoonist B G Gujjarappa.
 
Set up in 2011, in memory of Maya Kamath, a political cartoonist, 10 years after her passing away, by her family, in association with the Indian Institute of Cartoonists in Bangalore, the fifth edition of the awards is just out.
 
The purpose of the awards is to recognise and reward cartooning talent, especially those doing political cartoons and young talent.